Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 582 476 511
Rank change year-on-year -106 +35 -15
Contract jobs citing Packer 45 41 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.097% 0.15% 0.076%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.89% 1.07% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 32 20
10th Percentile £400 £418 £453
25th Percentile £463 £423 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £571
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.03% -0.82%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £725
90th Percentile £675 £625 £938
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £593
% change year-on-year -16.67% +1.27% +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £59.61 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,068 3,849 3,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.97% 13.87% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,384 2,544 2,732
10th Percentile £309 £281 £300
25th Percentile £420 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £603 £625
90th Percentile £694 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +3.80% -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 64 52
10th Percentile £21.66 £18.87 £20.05
25th Percentile £44.86 £21.39 £24.09
Median hourly rate £67.00 £37.75 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +77.48% -3.82% -25.24%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.13 £63.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £78.38 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £64.24 £28.25 £38.25
% change year-on-year +127.40% -26.14% -32.00%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

Packer
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -93 20 £500 -16.67% 8
North of England -60 13 £500 -16.67% 7
South East -60 7 £568 +30.57% 4
Yorkshire - 7 £513 - 2
North East -39 3 £463 +8.82% 2
North West -56 3 £575 -4.17% 3
East of England -21 1 £400 -20.00%
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) nginx
2 5 (11.11%) Apache
2 5 (11.11%) Confluence
3 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.22%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (46.67%) AWS
2 18 (40.00%) Azure
2 18 (40.00%) GitHub
3 14 (31.11%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (24.44%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (17.78%) Amazon S3
8 6 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (13.33%) Entra ID
8 6 (13.33%) Serverless
9 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (11.11%) AWS KMS
10 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (8.89%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (8.89%) Azure AKS
10 4 (8.89%) Datadog
11 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (33.33%) DNS
2 10 (22.22%) Firewall
3 7 (15.56%) DHCP
4 4 (8.89%) SSL
4 4 (8.89%) WAN
5 3 (6.67%) PCoIP
5 3 (6.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.44%) HTTP
6 2 (4.44%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (2.22%) Intranet
7 1 (2.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Jenkins
2 11 (24.44%) GitLab
3 9 (20.00%) Git
3 9 (20.00%) JIRA
4 5 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (11.11%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (46.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Senior
3 8 (17.78%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (15.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Computer Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Network Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Junior
8 3 (6.67%) Junior DevOps
8 3 (6.67%) Junior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (88.89%) Terraform
2 3 (6.67%) cloud-init
2 3 (6.67%) OpenGL
2 3 (6.67%) Qt
3 2 (4.44%) OpenID
3 2 (4.44%) SAML
4 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.22%) Kafka
4 1 (2.22%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.22%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Public Cloud
2 5 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.67%) CUDA
3 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) CMDB
5 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (53.33%) Linux
2 22 (48.89%) Windows
3 8 (17.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 3 (6.67%) Unix
5 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.44%) Windows Server
7 1 (2.22%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 32 (71.11%) DevOps
3 30 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (42.22%) Agile
5 13 (28.89%) Configuration Management
6 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (17.78%) Containerisation
9 7 (15.56%) Observability
10 6 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (13.33%) Software Testing
11 5 (11.11%) BCP
11 5 (11.11%) High Availability
11 5 (11.11%) RBAC
11 5 (11.11%) Security Hardening
11 5 (11.11%) Test Automation
12 4 (8.89%) Load Balancing
12 4 (8.89%) SIEM
13 3 (6.67%) Change Management
13 3 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 19 (42.22%) Python
3 11 (24.44%) Bash
4 6 (13.33%) Groovy
5 4 (8.89%) C#
5 4 (8.89%) Shell Script
5 4 (8.89%) SQL
6 3 (6.67%) Bicep
6 3 (6.67%) Go
7 1 (2.22%) C
7 1 (2.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (37.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (6.67%) CCNA
4 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (6.67%) Degree
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.22%) RHCA
6 1 (2.22%) RHCE
6 1 (2.22%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) NCSC
1 1 (2.22%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (20.00%) Docker
2 6 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.44%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (4.44%) Squid
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.44%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 28 (62.22%) Ansible
2 13 (28.89%) Kubernetes
3 5 (11.11%) vCenter Server
4 4 (8.89%) Grafana
4 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.89%) Puppet
5 3 (6.67%) Argo
5 3 (6.67%) Consul
5 3 (6.67%) ZABBIX
6 2 (4.44%) SCCM
6 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.22%) HAProxy
7 1 (2.22%) Istio
7 1 (2.22%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.22%) linkerd
7 1 (2.22%) Rancher
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) VMware
2 6 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 6 (13.33%) Tanium
3 5 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 5 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 4 (8.89%) PagerDuty
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.67%) NVIDIA
5 3 (6.67%) Splunk
5 3 (6.67%) Trend Micro
6 2 (4.44%) HP
6 2 (4.44%) Leostream
6 2 (4.44%) Ping Identity
7 1 (2.22%) Apple
7 1 (2.22%) ESET
7 1 (2.22%) Google
7 1 (2.22%) Okta
7 1 (2.22%) Tenable